Statement of Need: Knowledge is needed in understanding, communicating, and implementing primary prevention and secondary screening for communicable diseases, along with referencing evidence-based practice standards and guidelines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), local and state health departments, the CDC, and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Target Audience: This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of primary care health care professionals who will treat persons who have an infectious disease.

Learning Objectives: After completing the activity, the participant should be better able to:

Discuss trends in infectious disease and the steps in an outbreak investigation

Apply knowledge of primary prevention techniques such as hand, respiratory, and environmental hygiene, age-appropriate vaccination, and isolation precautions to control and prevent the transmission of infectious diseases

Analyze risk assessment and screening for communicable disease in asymptomatic patients following the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines

Assess the appropriate use of antibiotics to prevent multi-drug resistance infections

Accreditation Statements

Physician Credit: HME is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical ­education for physicians.

Credit Designation: HME designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing Credit: MER is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

MER is a provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP 12299, for 0.5 contact hour.

This activity qualifies for 0.10 pharmacotherapy credit.

American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)

The AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a ­maximum of 0.5 hour of Category I credit for completing this program.

Disclosure Policy

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, HME requires that individuals in a position to control the content of an educational activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest. HME resolves all conflicts of interest in an effort to ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in all its educational programs.

Furthermore, HME seeks to verify that all scientific research referred to, reported, or used in a CME/CE activity conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis. HME is ­committed to providing its learners with high-quality CME/CE activities that promote improvements in health care and not those of a commercial interest.

The faculty reported the following financial relationships with
commercial interests whose products or services may be mentioned in
this CME/CE activity:

Faculty Disclosures

Name of Faculty

Financial Relationship

Jean Ann Davison, DNP, FNP-BC

No relevant financial relationships

Staff/Planners' Disclosures

The planners and managers for this program reported the following ­financial relationships with commercial interests whose products or services may be related to the content of this CME activity:

HME planners and managers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

MER planners and managers have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use: This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. HME and MER do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Method of Participation: There are no fees for participating in and receiving CME/CE credit for this activity. During the period of May 14, 2015, through May 13, 2016, participants must:

A statement of credit will be issued only upon receipt of a completed activity evaluation form and a completed posttest with a score of 70% or better.

Disclaimer: The content and views presented in this educational activity
are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of HME or
MER. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient's conditions and possible contraindications on dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer's product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve
as a guideline for patient management.

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